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If you’ve ever hung a heavy item on a plastic clothes hanger and come back a while later to see that the hanger has permanently deformed, then you’ve seen a phenomenon known as “Creep” occurring...
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Install Ansys ACT extensions with ease in Ansys Mechanical on your desktop or workstation with this how-to guide.
Much of the focus in the world of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) centers on designing a structure to withstand a single application of a static load. Frequently, however, structures are subjected...
In the minds of many engineers, Ansys Mechanical can be used solely to address the behavior of solids. However, there is another class of problems that Mechanical can be used for: acoustics, which...
What is the Explicit Method? In the last 15 years, Ansys has gone from offering a single explicit dynamics workflow, using Mechanical APDL with a third-party solver and postprocessor, to offering...
Which Explicit Tool is Right for Me? In my Explicit Dynamics and Ansys: Part I blog post, I discussed the fundamentals of the theory behind the explicit dynamics method for structural simulation,...
Before Ansys Mechanical for Workbench was developed, engineers relied on a scripting language called Ansys Parametric Design Language (APDL) to set up and perform analyses. APDL is a powerful...
